“As anybody who has worked on public finances in Myanmar would know, accessing budget data in Myanmar can be a challenge. This limits the ability of the public to understand how public resources are being used and reduces research on public finances,” said Giles Dickenson-Jones.

The OMI budget dashboard addresses this problem by providing a central and up-to-date repository of budget data from the Union and State and Region governments. Features include:

State and region budget summaries, providing a summary of a State or Region’s main published expenditure and revenue items.

A subnational budget explorer, for comparing individual budget items and departments across multiple states and regions.

A Union budget summary, to examine changes over time to individual budget entries in the published Union government budget.

Budget data explorer, for exploring and downloading budget data using a number of filters, such as the budget year and classification.